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Named Person: | Anne Sexton; Anne Sexton |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Philip McGowan |
ISBN: | 0313315140 9780313315145 |
OCLC Number: | 470417807 |
Notes: | Notes bibliogr. Index. |
Description: | XIII-147 p. ; 24 cm. |
Contents: | Preface Abbreviations Acknowledgments Introduction: Sexton's Obsessive Combinations First Collections Life and Death and Love Sexton's Transformations Religion and Torment Poetry Repeating Afterword Works Consulted Index |
Series Title: | Contributions to the study of American literature, 16 |
Responsibility: | Philip McGowan. |
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"McGowan considers Sexton to be at the heart of mid-20th-century-generation poetry. He is extremely knowledgeable and sensitive to the challenges facing a female poet, as she writes in a language dominated by maleness and in a culture not prone to take women's writing as seriously as men's....McGowan succeeds in showing that Sexton speaks for many more selves than her own....Recommended. Graduate and research collections."-Choice ?McGowan considers Sexton to be at the heart of mid-20th-century-generation poetry. He is extremely knowledgeable and sensitive to the challenges facing a female poet, as she writes in a language dominated by maleness and in a culture not prone to take women's writing as seriously as men's....McGowan succeeds in showing that Sexton speaks for many more selves than her own....Recommended. Graduate and research collections.?-Choice Read more...

